{"product_id":"louisiana-legacies-9781118541890","title":"Louisiana Legacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes readings featuring recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical accounts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes material on every region of Louisiana\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a wide range of fields, including social, environmental, and economic history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetailed, focused material on different areas in Louisiana history, including women's history as well as the state's diverse ethnic populations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors' Preface 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: LOUISIANA'S COLONIAL CONTEXT 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783\u003cbr\u003eby Daniel J. Usner 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699–1763\u003cbr\u003eby Carl A. Brasseaux 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Pollock's Plantations: An Early Anglo Landowner on the Lower Mississippi, 1769–1824\u003cbr\u003eby Light T. Cummins 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS IN EARLY LOUISIANA 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesiring Total Tranquility—and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eby Kimberly Hanger 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish: The Letters of Rachel O'Connor\u003cbr\u003eby Sara Brooks Sundberg 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Murder of a \"Lewd and Abandoned Woman\": State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker\u003cbr\u003eby Judith Kelleher Schafer 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE: TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOUISIANA \"CREOLE\" 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal\u003cbr\u003eby Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn My Father's House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845–1875\u003cbr\u003eby Justin Nystrom 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: VIOLENT LOUISIANA 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I Would Rather Be Among the Comanches\": The Military Occupation of Southwest Louisiana, 1865\u003cbr\u003eby Michael G. Wade 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish\u003cbr\u003eby Joel M. Sipress 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeuding Is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877–1910\u003cbr\u003eby Samuel Hyde, Jr. 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891–1924\u003cbr\u003eby Alan G. Gauthreaux 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE: PROGRESSIVES AND RACE 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Plessy Met Ferguson\u003cbr\u003eby Keith Weldon Medley 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the South\u003cbr\u003eby Elna C. Green 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives\u003cbr\u003eby Samuel C. Shepherd 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX: MODERN LOUISIANA POLITICS 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What he did and what he promised to do . . .\": Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics\u003cbr\u003eby Jerry P. Sanson 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuey Long: A Political Contradiction\u003cbr\u003eby Glen Jeansonne 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty\": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928–2000\u003cbr\u003eby Anthony J. Badger 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina\u003cbr\u003eby Kent B. Germany 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SEVEN: TRANSITIONS IN RACE RELATIONS 257\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacial Repression in World War Two: The New Iberia Incident\u003cbr\u003eby Adam Fairclough 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930–1950\u003cbr\u003eby Lesley-Anne Reed 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART EIGHT: CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN MODERN LOUISIANA 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the \"Birthplace of Jazz\": Tourism and Musical Heritage Marketing in New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eby J. Mark Souther 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommercialization of Cajun Cuisine\u003cbr\u003eby Marcelle Bienvenu, Carl A. Brasseaux, and Ryan A. Brasseaux 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Destroyed the Marsh?: Oil Field Canals, Coastal Ecology, and the Debate over Louisiana’s Shrinking Wetlands\u003cbr\u003eby Tyler Priest and Jason P. Theriot 331\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406886969687,"sku":"9781118541890","price":24.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/louisiana-legacies-9781118541890","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}